About Amy White
Amy White is a former senior editor at Super Lawyers having been with the magazine for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a sports columnist and feature writer for a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Her freelance work can be found in Delaware Today Magazine, Mainline Today, Brandywine Hunt, Philadelphia Style and Delaware Beach Life. She is an adjunct professor of writing at the University of Delaware, where she graduated with a journalism degree. She also holds an MFA in publishing and creative writing from Rosemont College and has served as line editor on poetry anthologies and works of contemporary fiction. She loves baseball, bikes, books and coffee.
Articles written by Amy White
The Secondary Storyline
As a journalist, Chelsea Crawford saw the story no one else didChelsea Crawford had just landed her dream job as a weekend editor for Philadelphia CBS affiliate network KYW-TV when the city was gripped by the 2007 murder of police officer Charles Cassidy. “It was really a crazy, heartbreaking story,” says Crawford, now with Baltimore’s Brown Goldstein & Levy. “Officer Cassidy unknowingly walked into an armed robbery at a Dunkin Donuts, was shot in the head and later died. Part of the shooting was caught on the store’s video camera, which …
The Alliance
Ashley Ward says it’s her turn to pull up the next gen of Black women lawyersWhen Maryland Circuit Court Judge Angela Eaves told her clerk Ashley Ward about a networking group she should join, Ward was wary. “Let’s just say I’d done the networking thing before,” she says. Ward had recently arrived back in Maryland after attending law school out of state and was feeling “out of sorts” on how to connect with other young lawyers after her clerkship. “Judge Eaves said, ‘Oh, they will just envelop you in this supportive cocoon,’ and I was just like, …
Second-Parent Adoption in My State
As a couple having reproductive challenges, you choose to use assisted reproduction, such as an egg or sperm donor. The baby that's eventually born to you and your partner is, without question, your baby. Unfortunately, in the eyes of some states, it's not so clear when a non-biological partner is involved. Second-parent adoption is the legal adoption process to allow a non-biological parent to adopt their partner's biological child. Married couples of any sex can adopt a child in all …
Setting the Tone
Andre' B. Caldwell has a propensity to say ‘yes’In 1995, when he was in middle school in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Andre' B. Caldwell was a member of the mayor’s team volunteers program, in which students were paired with various professionals to explore jobs over the summer. He rolled with the city’s water and electrical meter reading crew. “I got to go out in the vans with the workers and learn how to read the water and electrical meters,” he says. “And the best part: I carried a walkie-talkie. All summer. … I was so cool …
Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Transgender Employees
While the Human Rights Campaign's 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index report found that 72 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer transgender-inclusive healthcare — up from zero percent in 2002 — there is still work to be done when it comes to transgender employees and the workplace. As of March 2025, over half of all states have enacted laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care. For legal advice on creating inclusive work environments and employment policies, talk to an …
Transgender Student Rights in Illinois
Transgender student rights in Illinois include Title IX equal access, anti-bullying policies under Illinois law, and school harassment protections under the Illinois Human Rights Act. Students' discrimination protections apply to gender identity and gender expression, including bathroom access, locker room access, and use of their preferred pronouns on their official records. Students also have equal protection for sports participation, school dress codes, and student privacy. Your legal …
How Has Work-From-Home Emboldened Hackers and Phishers?
When it comes to a certain subset of cyber bad actors, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent rise of remote work was the perfect storm for them to better their craft. Not only has new technology made a hacker’s job easier and phishing scams and cyberattacks appear more legit, but the nation’s collective exodus from the office to remote work had IT professionals focused more on the transition and less on cyber security. An Increase in Phishing Attacks Targeting Employees “We’ve seen …
The Real Power
Nisha Mungroo isn’t here for the paycheckNisha Mungroo thought she had it all figured out—she was going to be a corporate lawyer, make six figures and wield real power. As a first-generation West Indian American with Trinidadian roots on her mother’s side and Guyanese roots on her father’s side, and as the granddaughter of rural farmers, Mungroo felt she owed it to her family to dazzle. “My father was one of 15, I was the first of my nuclear family to go to college,” she says. “To my parents, having educated children …
Are Employee Complaints Protected Speech?
As an employee living and working in America, you are subject to the country's First Amendment rights to free speech. So, if you want to flip the bird to the presidential motorcade, you're immune to consequences from your private employer, right? Not exactly. Assuming all types of speech are protected can lead to trouble. There are restrictions based on the nature of employment and applicable laws. It is advisable to speak with an experienced employment lawyer for legal advice about protected …
Tech Support
Before she was a tech lawyer, Jennifer Beckage was in on the internet’s ground floorIn the late ’90s, Jennifer Beckage was a 20-something Southerner with big hair and a Texas twang who saw the future. She would sit down in boardrooms across the Northeast making a simple ask of Fortune 500 presidents: “Just throw away your entire marketing plan,” she says. “The whole world is changing. You should listen to me, a 20-year-old, and move your 100-year-old business online.” She laughs at the memory. “I believed in the product, I was passionate about technology and about …
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